QUINTESSENCE YOGA
Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
QUINTESSENCE
BODY → HEART → SOUL
Quintessence is the journey beneath what we learned to carry, protect and become - a return to what is essential, authentic and wholly our own. A reclamation of body, heart and soul.
Reclaim the Body
Safety. Strength. Sensation. Nourishment. Rest. Pleasure. Boundaries. Inhabiting yourself.
Reclaim the Heart
Attachment. Grief. Shame. Longing. Relationship. Receiving. Love without self-abandonment.
Reclaim the Soul
Identity. Belonging. Inheritance. Systemic entanglements. Purpose. Essence. The life underneath adaptation
WHAT LIES BENEATH THE RESILIENCE?
For many of us, the body learned how to carry long before we understood what we were carrying.
We adapted. Contracted. Protected. Kept going.
But what happens when we stop pushing?
What lies underneath the patterns that have kept us functioning?
How do we receive when we have spent years contracted around survival?
And what becomes available when there is finally enough space to soften?
QUINTESSENCE YIN YOGA
Quintessence Yin is one doorway into this work - a trauma-aware approach to yin yoga, stillness and embodied practice created for bodies that have lived, adapted, carried, protected and survived.
Rather than asking the body to perform, achieve or override what it feels, the practice invites curiosity.
Drawing on decades of yoga and meditation teaching alongside trauma-informed, somatic and systemic practice, Quintessence Yin brings these worlds together through simple, accessible practices grounded in choice, awareness and stillness.
Nothing to achieve. Nothing to prove. Somewhere to begin.
· ONLINE STUDIO
Short, accessible Quintessence Yin practices designed to meet you in the life you are actually living.
You don't need an hour. You don't need to be flexible. And you don't need to arrive calm.
Through longer-held shapes, breath, stillness and gentle awareness, the practices offer space to notice sensation, recognise protective patterns and reconnect with the body without demanding that it change.
Trauma-Aware · Embodied · Choice-Led · Accessible
MAKE SPACE - A FREE INTRODUCTION TO QUINTESSENCE YIN
Make Space introduces the foundations of the practice - how to approach the shapes, work with sensation, make choices for your own body and begin exploring what happens when we create a little more space around what we're carrying.
LEVEL ONE · GROUND
Between Things · Come Home · Meet the Day · Let the Day Go · Unwind · Unclench
A growing library of short guided Quintessence Yin practices for grounding, reconnecting and developing a sustainable relationship with stillness.
· IN PERSON
Practise with me in TAURANGA in the Western Bay of Plenty.
Small and intimate Quintessence Yin classes and workshops offer an opportunity to experience the practice together - with time, space and individual choice built into every session.
Classes are trauma-aware, accessible and suitable for different bodies and levels of experience.
Please know you don't need to be flexible or experienced in yoga.
© 2026 Erin Joy Lewis.